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Yan, W., L.A. Hunt, Q. Sheng, and Z. Szlavnics. 2000. Cultivar evaluation and mega-environment investigation based on the
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Ceccarelli, S., E. Bailey, S. Grando, and R. Tutwiler. 1997. Decentralized, participatory plant breeding: A link between formal plant
breeding and small farmers. In: New frontiers in participatory research and gender analysis. Proceedings of an International
Seminar on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis for Technology Development, Cali, Colombia, pp. 65–74.
Ceccarelli, S., and S. Grando. 2002. Plant breeding with farmers requires testing the assumptions of conventional plant breeding:
Lessons from the ICARDA barley program. In: Farmers, scientists and plant breeding: Integrating knowledge and practice
(Cleveland, D.A., and D. Soleri, eds), pp. 297–332. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, UK.
Ceccarelli, S., S. Grando, A. Amri, et al. 2001. Decentralized and participatory plant breeding for marginal environments. In:
Broadening the genetic base of crop production. (Cooper, H.D., C. Spillane, and T. Hodgink, eds), pp. 115–136. CABI, New
York/FAO, Rome/IPRI, Rome.
Ceccarelli, S., S. Grando, E. Bailey, et al. 2001. Farmer participation in barley breeding in Syria, Morocco and Tunisia. Euphytica
122:521–536.
Ceccarelli, S., A. Grando, and F. Capettini. 2001. La partecipation de los agricultores en el mejoramiento de cebada en al ICAR-
DAS. In: Memorias de la Conferencia Internacional sobre: Futuras Estrategias para Implementar Mejoramiento Participativo en
los Cultivos de las Zonas Altas en la Region Andina, 23–27 de Septiembre del 2001, Quito, Ecuador (D. Daniel, ed.),
pp. 25–54.
Soleri, D., D.A. Cleveland, S.E. Smith, et al. 2002. Understanding farmers’ knowledge as the basis for collaboration with plant
breeders: Methodological development and examples from ongoing research in Mexico, Syria, Cuba and Nepal. In: Farmers,
scientists and plant breeding: Integrating knowledge and practice (Cleveland, D.A., and D. Soleri, eds), pp. 19–60. CABI
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Figure 3 The participatory barley breeding scheme in Syria has been extended to seven provinces and 25 villages.
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